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Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic ...

dict_xsyn (Extended Synonym Dictionary) is an example of an add-on dictionary template for full-text search. This dictionary type replaces words with groups of their synonyms, and so makes it possible ...

You can now raise a glass to 10 new Welsh words in the Oxford English Dictionary - including the phrase for cheers. Iechyd da, which means good health and is said before having a drink ...

To play this audio you need to enable JavaScript. Hello and welcome to The English We Speak, where we explain phrases used by fluent English speakers so that you can use them as well. I'm Feifei.

The latest additions to the English dictionary follow in the footsteps of other terminology coined in the modern age, including "selfie" and "babyccino". Meanwhile, "rizz" was named as word of the ...

The English language is full of words that seem overstuffed with unnecessary letters, feel like they should be spelled a different way, or just don't make sense. Here are some of our favorites ...

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